Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 5 authors, 2018-01-30

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in rds_send_xmit

From: Santosh Shilimkar <hidden>
Date: 2017-12-18 16:28:21
Also in: linux-rdma, lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], rds - reliable datagram sockets, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Allison Henderson, Linus Torvalds

On 12/18/2017 12:43 AM, syzbot wrote:
Hello,

syzkaller hit the following crash on 
6084b576dca2e898f5c101baef151f7bfdbb606d
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/master
compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
.config is attached
Raw console output is attached.

Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this bug yet.


BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
program syz-executor6 is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert 
it to SG_IO
IP: rds_send_xmit+0x80/0x930 net/rds/send.c:186
Looks like another one tripping on empty transport. Mostly below should
address it but we will test it if it does.
diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 7244d2e..e2d0eaa 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ int rds_send_xmit(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
                 goto out;
         }

-       if (conn->c_trans->xmit_path_prepare)
+       if (conn->c_trans && conn->c_trans->xmit_path_prepare)
                 conn->c_trans->xmit_path_prepare(cp);



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